The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is investigating the operation of the registration systems for cattle. This is in response to signals that there may be a technical cause for the high number of multiple births in 2017.
The blocked dairy farmers indicate that the management systems that work with a milking robot, the registration system of CRV, Rendac and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (the Identification & Registration System) do not communicate sufficiently with each other.
As a result, the data did not always reach RVO.nl properly. It seems to go wrong especially with the registration of stillborn calves. When asked, the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality will let you know that it will look into this.
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Uit the many reactions which the editors of Boerenbusiness received, the technical cause appears to recur regularly. Below is a selection of the reactions of blocked dairy farmers:
"We have been blocked and also flagged, because twins had no mother. At least, that's what RVO.nl reported. When we check on Thursday, however, there was a mother in the system. Later in the week they collected the mother, while the offspring are studbook recognized. The NVWA has admitted that this is happening and does not understand why. Now we have to prove what has been good for six months."
"We are like Karst Tamminga blocked. We now have to have 7 twin calves tested for DNA (out of 15 twins born at 550 calvings in 2017)."
"We have also been blocked because 1 calf was missing from the I&R registration. It was a rejected calf of a little finger. The rejected fruit was sent to the health service for examination. We entered it as rejected in the computer. However, because we did not calf, we are now suspected of fraud. Everything can be proven with the papers from the GD, but they are not accepted. DNA testing is also required from a heifer calf twins who were born much later."
"We have 16 calves that are blocked for removal. This is because they are twins that come from dairy farms that are blocked for one reason or another. The life numbers of the mothers of these calves were provided by I&R (or RVO.nl) on 9 February. removed from the register and are therefore no longer known. We are now expected to demonstrate the relationship with the mothers of these animals by means of a DNA test. Absurd. The mother was known. For reasons of a possible suspicion of fraud on these farms all twins coming from these farms are blocked."
"In October last year we had a heifer with a dead calf. Via Rendac we stated who the mother of this calf was. Rendac did not report this to the I&R system, so the heifer had no calving date."
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